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50 Centavos
| Issuer | Mindanao Emergency Currency Board |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on pale paper within a decorative border of repeated Greek-key meander pattern. The denomination "50 CENTAVOS" appears in the four corners and along both vertical margins. A circular seal of the Commonwealth of the Philippines is positioned at the lower left, while the central field carries the authority text, series date, denomination in large bold type, series letters, and the issuing board name. Board member names — Florentino Saguin (Chairman), P.D. Pacana, and I. Barbasa — are printed at the lower left alongside a manuscript signature. |
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| Reverse description | Black letterpress on pale paper within the same repeated Greek-key meander border as the obverse. The denomination appears in all four corners and along the margins. The central field carries bilingual redemption text in both English and Visayan (Cebuano), along with a warning against counterfeiting rendered in both languages in italic script. |
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The Mindanao Emergency Currency Board was one of several provincial currency authorities established in the Philippines after the Japanese occupation disrupted normal banking in 1942. These guerrilla-backed notes were produced under extremely difficult conditions — limited paper stocks, improvised printing, and constant threat of discovery — which makes consistent quality across the series essentially impossible to find. Mindanao issues in particular circulated in a theater where Japanese counter-guerrilla operations were intensive.
Florentino Saguin's signature as the authorizing officer ties this note to the civil administration that continued to function, however precariously, under American-aligned Filipino leadership during the occupation.